I’ve donated to development. Instances need support, but the platform won’t improve without developers.

It’s popular to shit on lemmy.ml and the tankie devs, but that’s where most of the development and beta testing happens. It’s wild that software that allows users to ignore the silliness of that instance isn’t funded because of the instance.

(It’s possible for devs to be distasteful enough that I wouldn’t use their software, but we haven’t gotten there yet with Lemmy)

Let’s fucking go

The Facebook Files made – and provided evidence for – multiple allegations, including that Facebook was well aware of how toxic Instagram was for many teen girls; that Facebook has a “secret elite” list of people for whom Facebook’s rules don’t apply; that Facebook knew its revised algorithm was fueling rage; and that Facebook didn’t do enough to stop anti-vax propaganda during Covid-19. Most damningly of all, The Facebook Files reported that all of these things were well known to senior executives, including Mark Zuckerberg.

It’s clear which side Sorkin is taking. “I blame Facebook for January 6,” he said last year. “Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement … There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There isn’t. It’s just growth.”

Mostly Lemmy, but I reinstalled Hoplite for a flight a while ago.

There is no single meaning. Viewers of the art can find meaning, but it won’t be canonical. I think the meaning the creator intended is important, but that isn’t necessarily what the audience will understand from the work.

So I guess I’m saying that the audience determines the meaning.

Corps are gonna corp.

Repetition repetition repetition

I feel like this is the default. Many of the people in my life don’t want to make decisions. They just want to do the simple things that bring immediate contentment and avoid everything else.

That’s a really weird way of looking at it.

That’s how I roll.

Without the database, there’s no central ledger to consult as to whether or not you’re legally a person.

We’re already seeing them do that without a database. 🤷‍♂️

Other countries are able to maintain internal databases without using them to screw over their own citizens (except when they do). The problem isn’t the database.

See the UK Post Office accounting scandal, in which a persistent computer error went unfixed for decades and caused hundreds of post office employees to be fired and dragged through courts for corruption that never happened. A good chunk of them committed suicide.

The database is the least important part of the system: the organizational structure, rules, and procedures are way more important, because they actively help or harm people.

no no, it’s an input to a Palantir database

Welp, I know what I’m reading next. Thanks!

1. I haven’t seen a built in picker for multi-character emojis, like the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (on OSX and Android)
2. Sometimes the description I’m thinking of and the picker text doesn’t line up, but I’m not sure if Google’s picker will be that smart.

🤷‍♂️

People need to internalize this. Generally speaking, nobody who has a choice wants our old crap.

While the stats vary depending on who’s measuring, the story is consistent: web publishers, who provided the content that trained these AI models, face dramatically diminishing visitors, which means lower advertising and subscription revenues, even amid overall growth in search impressions.

I’m glad I didn’t have that experience. I think I had cases on those phones, so that might have been what made the difference.

Back when removable batteries were a thing, the couple of phones I had both were removable without screws.

I have no strong feelings about what a removable battery should look like, but I love the idea of increasing a phone’s longevity easily.

Will people start caring for their privacy if most of the links posted were tracking free?

No. Most people won’t notice, and the sites they’re visiting have other tracking mechanisms.

I advocated for getting news from tracking free websites/ non-profits, people don’t seem to change.

Yes. Those sites fill a need/role. Non profits typically don’t have the same content factories that for-profit orgs do.

Will people on the long-term change or is it a lost cause?

Legislative change is the only way forward. You have a threat model that involves privacy, but most people don’t. Instead of trying to change everybody, focus on legislation that would improve privacy regulations for all.

I worry that training myself to be mean will bleed over into other parts of my life.